REFLEX, Czech Republic, 1-7.01.2007 „Docolomanský together with other gifted ´cavers´ brought to light the deceptive ache of Slovak history – the participation of Slovaks in the deportation, that is killing of Slovak Jews. In the hallucinatory pictures, where the dead meet the alive, past shame lasciviously rubs against present shame. A masterfully and deeply dug finger in the wound of collective (un)memory!“
9. 6. 2012
Waiting Room
Premiere 28th and 29th April 2006 at experimental area NoD Roxy, Prague
Director Viliam Docolomanský
Assistant director Marek Godovic
Music (using various motifs) Dan Kyzling, Viliam Docolomanský
Musical director, musical dramaturgy Viliam Docolomanský
Dramaturgy Jana Pilátová
Set and costume design Markéta Sládecková
Movement assistant Ioana Mona Popovici
Research assistant Robert Blasko
Light design Pavel Kotlík
Fundraising Irena Swiecicki
Producers Alena Banáková, Roman Horák and Farma v jeskyni
Actors Hana Varadzinová, Eliska Vavríková, Róbert Nizník, Patricie Poráková, Roman Horák, Anna Krsiaková, David Jánský, Lukás Kuta, Petr Janek
Memory versus the presence of a place – the railway station Zilina-Zariecie; from here, Jews from the Slovak State were deported during the second world war.
In the waiting-room, a place in-between, „accidental“ travellers meet and the dead return, not by accident. In this banal triangle of relations, private violence accumulates, evoking the unhealed historical trauma, which is still the root of silent nationalism.
We find ourselves in the place of central-European conscience, where – accompanied by the tones of Slovak tango – we meet the ghosts of those with whom we have not parted.